Keynote & Plenary Speakers for IWPR 2018

Speaker I

Prof. Dr.
Xiaoyi Jiang, University of Munster, Germany

Xiaoyi
Jiang received the Bachelor degree in computer science at Peking
University, China, and the Ph.D. degree and Venia Docendi
(Habilitation) degree in computer science from University
of Bern, Switzerland. He was an Associate Professor at Technical
University of Berlin, Germany. Since 2002, he has been a Full
Professor at University of Münster, Germany, and is now the Dean
of Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. Prof. Jiang is
currently the Editor-in-Chief of the International
Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. In
addition, he also serves on the Advisory Board and Editorial
Board of several journals, including the IEEE Transactions on
Medical Imaging, International Journal of Neural Systems,
Pattern Analysis and Applications, and Pattern Recognition.
Prof. Jiang is a Fellow of IAPR.

Speaker II

Prof. Pedro Furtado, University of Coimbra,
Portugal

Pedro Furtado is Professor at
University of Coimbra UC, Portugal, where he
teaches courses in both Computer and Biomedical
Engineering. He has more than 25 years
experience in both teaching, doing research and
supervising industry projects. He has a broad
interest in computer science subjects, with the
main focus being on performance and scalability
qualities of systems, and more recently also on
image recognition for medical applications.
Pedro did a lot of research in data warehousing
and analytics, bigdata, data mining, and image
recognition for medical applications. He also
worked in assistive technologies, applying image
recognition and mobile technologies to
healthcare scenarios. Pedro has about 200 papers
published in international conferences and
journals, books published and several research
collaborations with both industry and academia.
In the last years, Pedro has spent time as
visiting scholar in some of the most prestigious
universities in the world, and collaborating
with non-profit institutions. Besides a PhD in
Computer Engineering from U. Coimbra (UC)
(2000), Pedro Furtado also holds an MBA from
Universidade Catolica Portuguesa (UCP) (2004).

Speaker III

Prof. Xudong Jiang, Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore

Prof. Xudong Jiang received the
B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree from the University of
Electronic Science and Technology of China, and
received the Ph.D. degree from Helmut Schmidt
University Hamburg, Germany. From 1986 to 1993,
he worked as Lecturer at UESTC where he received
two Science and Technology Awards from the
Ministry for Electronic Industry of China. He
was a recipient of the German Konrad-Adenauer
Foundation young scientist scholarship. From
1993 to 1997, he was with Helmut Schmidt
University Hamburg, Germany as scientific
assistant. From 1998 to 2004, He worked with the
Institute for Infocomm Research, A*Star,
Singapore, as Senior Research Fellow, Lead
Scientist and appointed as the Head of
Biometrics Laboratory where he developed an
software that achieved the fastest and the
second most accurate fingerprint verification in
the International Fingerprint Verification
Competition (FVC2000). He joined Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore as a faculty
member in 2003 and served as the Director of the
Centre for Information Security from 2005 to
2011. Currently, Dr Jiang is a tenured
Association Professor in Nanyang Technological
University. Dr Jiang has published over 120
research papers, including 20 papers in top IEEE
journals: TPAMI, TIP, TSP and SPM, which are
well-cited on Web of Science. He is also an
inventor of 7 patents (3 US patents). Dr Jiang
is a senior member of IEEE, elected voting
member of IFS technical committee of IEEE Signal
Processing Society, Associate editor of IEEE
Signal Processing Letters and IET Biometrics. He
has been serving as General Chair, Technical
Program Committee Chair, Keynote Speaker and
Session Chair of multiple international
conferences. His research interest includes
pattern recognition, computer vision, machine
learning, image analysis, signal processing,
machine learning and biometrics.

Speaker IV

Yow Kin Choong obtained his B.Eng (Elect) with 1st
Class Honours from the National University of Singapore in 1993, and
his Ph.D. from Cambridge University, UK in 1998. He joined
the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)
in March 2013, where he is presently an Associate Professor in the
EECS Department. Prior to joining GIST, he was a
Professor at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT),
P.R. China (2012-2013), and Associate Professor at the Nanyang
Technological University (NTU), Singapore (1998-2012). In 1999-2005,
he served as the Sub-Dean of Computer Engineering in NTU, and in
2006-2008, he served as the Associate Dean of Admissions in NTU.

Yow Kin Choong’s research interest is in Ambient
Intelligence which includes passive remote sensing such as Computer
Vision, wireless communications such as Ad hoc and Sensor Networks,
and computational intelligence such as Fuzzy-Neuro Inference
Systems. He has published over 80 top quality international journal
and conference papers, and he has served as reviewer for a number of
premier journals and conferences, including the IEEE Wireless
Communications and the IEEE Transactions on Education. He has been
invited to give presentations at various scientific meetings and
workshops, such as the CNET Networks Event (2002) as well as the
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Launch (2003). He is also a member of
the IEEE, ACM, and the Singapore Computer Society (SCS).

His pioneering work in Mobile and Interactive
Learning won the HP Philanthropy grant in 2003 for applying Mobile
Technologies in a Learning Environment. Only 7 awards were given to
the 21 Asia Pacific Countries who were invited, and his project was
the only one from Singapore to win it. Also, in 2003, he was one of
the only 2 Singaporeans to be awarded participation to the ASEAN
Technology Program on Multi Robot Cooperation Development held in
KAIST, Korea.

He was the winner of the NTU Excellence in Teaching
Award 2005, and he won the Most Popular SCE Year 1 lecturer for 4
consecutive years 2004-2007. He has led numerous student teams to
National and International victories such as the IEEE Computer
Society International Design Competition (CSIDC) (2001), the
Microsoft Imagine Cup (2002, 2003 and 2005), etc.

Speaker V

Prof.
Julian FIERREZ, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain

Julian
Fierrez received the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees in
telecommunications engineering from Universidad Politecnica de
Madrid, Spain, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. Since 2002 he has
been affiliated with the Biometric Recognition Group (ATVS), first
at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, and since 2004 at Universidad
Autonoma de Madrid, where he is currently an Associate Professor.
From 2007 to 2009 he was a visiting researcher at Michigan State
University in USA under a Marie Curie fellowship. His research
interests include general signal and image processing, pattern
recognition, and biometrics, with emphasis on signature and
fingerprint verification, multi-biometrics, biometric databases,
system security, and forensic applications of biometrics. Dr.
Fierrez is actively involved in multiple EU projects focused on
biometrics (e.g. TABULA RASA and BEAT), has attracted notable impact
for his research (more than 6,000 citations with h-index = 42 in
Google Scholar), and is the recipient of a number of distinctions,
including: Best Paper Awards at AVBPA 2003, ICB 2006, ICPR 2008, and
ICB 2015; Best PhD Thesis Award in Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition in 2005-2007 by the IAPR Spanish liaison (AERFAI), EBF
European Biometric Industry Award 2006, EURASIP Best PhD Award 2012,
Medal in the Young Researcher Awards 2015 by the Spanish Royal
Academy of Engineering, and the Miguel Catalan Award to the Best
Researcher under 40 in the Community in Madrid in the general area
of Science and Technology.

Speaker VI

Prof. Kin
Hong Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Prof. Wong
Kin Hong is an Associate Professor of the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He
received a PhD from the Department of Engineering of
the University of Cambridge. His major research interest is in 3-D
computer vision especially in pose estimation, structure from motion
and tracking. He has investigated and developed many useful
techniques in computer vision such as the four-point pose estimation
algorithm and Kalman-trifocal pose estimation methods which are
useful in many application areas such as automatic driving and
virtual reality. He is also interested in pattern recognition,
embedded applications, and computer music.

Speaker VII

Prof. Aythami Morales, Universidad
Autonoma de Madrid, Spain

Biography: Aythami Morales Moreno received his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunication Engineering in 2006 from Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. He received his Ph.D degree from La Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 2011. He performs his research works in the BiDA Lab - Biometric and Data Pattern Analytics Laboratory at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He has performed research stays at the Biometric Research Laboratory at Michigan State University, the Biometric Research Center at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the Biometric System Laboratory at University of Bologna and Schepens Eye Research Institute (Harvard Medical School). His research interests include pattern recognition, computer vision, machine learning and biometrics signal processing. He is author of more than 70 scientific articles published in international journals and conferences. He has received awards from ULPGC, La Caja de Canarias, SPEGC, and COIT. He has participated in 7 National and European projects in collaboration with other universities and private entities such as UAM, UPM, EUPMt, Accenture, Unión Fenosa, Soluziona,...